Re: tlug: help with Diamond Viper 330 card

[Jonathan Byrne <jq@example.com>]

I'm not an X expert, but they seem otherwise occupied today, so here
goes  :-)

On Tue, 30 Mar 1999, D.A. Walter wrote:

> I have just installed Vine Linux 0.9b on my DEC server. I can't get XWindows
> to start up properly, even though my Diamond Viper 330 (4Mb) is supported by
> Vine Linux.
> 
> I am using xf86Setup to configure XWindows. I choose the Diamond Viper 330
> adaptor and SVGA server, but when xf86Setup saves the setup and trys to run,
> the whole screen just goes blank.

I have two Viper 330 cards running under Linux and they do auto-probe
successfully under TurboLinux.   It may be that either 1) The monitor
specs you are supplying are ones that can't actually be met by your
monitor and/or the card, or 2) SuperProbe is sick.

Try this:  since you know you have a Viper 330, instead of having it
probe for the card, choose the card from the list instead, then
configure your monitor.  If it isn't on the monitor list (or even if it
is, you might want to try this), check the documentation for the
monitor's horizontal and vertical sync rates and enter that information.
See if that works.

It's also possible to manually edit XF86Config (in /etc/X11 on my
systems), but I've never tried that myself and can't offer any advise on
that.  My machine at work doesn't have a Viper, or I'd send you a copy
of XF86Config.  If you still don't have it fixed by tonight, I could
email it from home.

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